all we ever wanted (was everything)

i want to die rejoicing.

2011-11-01T12:23:00.000-07:00

prayer of death- entrance

I want to die without no fear
I want to die rejoicing
I want to meet my brother there
And hear his glorious voice sing
Could not bear it to be left alone
In this world so full of sorrow
So if you leave this world today
I'll follow you tomorrow
I want to be prepared to die
In any kind of weather
I want for you to be ready too
We'll fly away together
If you think your life will have no end
Your foolish days are numbered
Go and waste your time trying to pretend
Still you're bound for eternal slumber
And the wicked men who rule this land
With all their wealth and power
Are bound to die like you and I
And none can tell the hour
I want to live in freedom now
I will not wait for Heaven
I want to sing til Babylon falls
And we all will be forgiven
I want die without no fear
How I want to die rejoicing
How I want to meet my brother there
And hear his glorious voice sing

prayer of death- entrance (mp3)

thee physical

2011-07-19T21:46:00.000-07:00

so today pictureplane's new album thee physical received it's physical release.
travis egedy is a prophet, a poet, and a friend... not just to me, but to anyone fortunate enough to interact with him. admittedly this statement is based on a night spent in his company bingeing on mdma with some other close friends... a night of music, lasers, drag, shoe licking.
still rolling on our way to the airport i handed travis the camera and asked him what informs his work... the following is his response.

his new video for post physical is perfect... chaotic, beautiful, and without pretense.

Pictureplane - "Post Physical" from stereogum on Vimeo.

pictureplane-post physical (mp3)

nike7up/33:33

2011-07-14T18:45:00.000-07:00

always fucking killing it. nike7up just dropped yet another insanely uh-mazing mixtape... expansive without ever being unfocused. nike7up continues to manipulate elements of pop without being ironic, but instead inspiring.

nike7up- mixtape july 33:33 mp3

damn... still can't no body can fuck with this motherfucker. (he's playing 120 minutes at the elbo room friday august 5th in san francisco)

nike7up-lucky (thief in the night mix)mp3

division of labor.

2011-07-13T14:37:00.000-07:00

myself and U>L>S>A are playing some noise/beats/imagery this friday at the division of labor festival at the lab in the san francisco mission... though personally i'm more excited about the rest of the lineup...

particularly streetwalker, and total accomplishment... i played with streetwalker some months back in new york at pendu disco... and they were fucking sick... and i've been listening to everything total accomplishment has up on their soundcloud fer like evs... i strongly suggest taking some decent acid, coming out, and having your mind blown.

OOZE by Streetwalker
Benny's Beat Studio Jam by totalaccomplishment

"Division of Labor playfully examines experimental music, sound, performance, and DJ culture, bringing together distinctive artists and uniting diverse audiences from within The Lab’s innovative creative community and beyond. For the past 16 years, the Lab has occupied the Redstone Building—a landmark encapsulating a specific history of union organization and labor strikes. Division of Labor is inspired by the Redstone building's rich history and coincides with our annual juried exhibition, A floorless room without walls. The gallery ceiling serves as both site and subject of A floorless room without walls."

loved to death.

2011-07-11T12:39:00.000-07:00

so my friends at loved to death make shit... like the best shit... like ever. they do taxidermy work... jewelry, hair pieces, curio's, etc.
everything is made with care and then some... nothing is ever killed to be used... all made from recycled and salvaged parts, and all are made in memorial to the animal that has passed.

the loved to death shop is also the home of articulated gallery... which has been home to some absurdly amazing art show's over the past year... they're having an anniversary show on august 6th featuring the photography work of tommy ferguson.
there will be booze and darkness, with myself and nako providing musix. come hang k?

those kids obsess on musix like i do... so these two trax are fer them... they fer y'all too so feel free to grab 'em.
chelsea wolfe... insanely beautiful as always... (on tour with liturgy this month... and playin 120 minutes in sept)... and nike7up coming through 120 minutes in august.

chelsea wolfe-mer mp3
nike7up-lucky (thief in the night mix)mp3

photos: andrew moran stylist: kristine cruz model: tory jewelry and bat: loved to death slip: black pyramid

My Sweet Satan

2011-06-17T18:36:00.000-07:00

(screencap via)

Jim Van Bebber (pictured) produces exquisitely dark, self-financed, goresploitation films that explore America's history of ad-hoc cults, ritual killing and serial murder with an obsessional relish.

My Sweet Satan, 1994, is Van Bebber's take on the 1984 murder of Long Island teenager Gary Lauwers. The murder was ostensibly over a small drug debt but was later claimed by his murderer 'Acid King' Ricky Kasso to be a human sacrifice.

Watch the classic short here: part 1/ part 2

acid king- lead paint (mp3)

Screen Time

2011-05-26T22:26:00.000-07:00

Hi, I'm Jennifer. I saved this post as a draft a year and a half ago, but no one's enjoying it in my Blogger dashboard. So here goes... my first post for AWEWWE. Enjoy.

"Ballet Mecanique," 1924:

lots more after the jump...

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revelations and trash

2011-05-19T15:58:00.000-07:00

my boy ben chisolm (white horse/chelsea wolf) sent me a tape the other day... been mad busy lately and put off listening to it for a minute...
this morning, in attempt to recover from the light asylum show last night (more on all that soon enough), i rolled up some headband, put on some headphones, and proceeded to melt edgily in to my chair.
seriously... you ever been at the club on mushroomz, and then somebody you owe drug money to says what up? they just being friendly, but because of the trip you start to feel like shits just a bit more sinister than all that... err'body voice start to sound a bit deeper... and the red and blue lights keep makin' people look like demon thugz. yeah... me too... dat shit is fucked up... but when it comes to you and you aint scared... and you just ride that tripp out... its the shit... so this tape kinda like that... the shit.

KTL // CASEY CHISHOLM
GATEKEEPER // WAKA FLOCKA FLAME
SILK FLOWERS // NAS
DEATH IN JUNE // METHOD MAN
WHITE RING // BEYONCE
DEATH GRIPS
CRASS
MELT-BANANA
MI AMI // BUSTA RHYMES
FRIENDZONE // LIL KIM
SPVCXGHXZTPVRRP
WATER BORDERS // OL DIRTY BASTARD
BOWIE // BIGGIE
oOoOO // MISSY ELLIOT // EVE

white horse revelations and trash mixtape (mp3)

nudity is junk food for the soul.

2011-05-04T12:38:00.000-07:00

these are from a series of polaroids called everyone orders pizza by photographer and friend andrew moran. you can find a few more here.

details and nerd shit:

Models: Jessica Hudson & Amanda Jacobsen

Camera: Polaroid Land Camera Model 180

witchcraft- her sisters they were weak (mp3)

palimpsest.

2011-04-19T14:20:00.000-07:00

"i left her sitting under a tree gazing up through dappled sunlight to observe the clouds parade across the sky. she said she would never leave that spot. i placed a ball of gossamer thread in her lap and tied one end around my tongue. i turned my back to her and with my first step she slipped away from memory. but... today blood poured from my mouth, and when i looked down i saw the faded dusty string with bits of my flesh dragging in the dirt. i remembered the girl i had abandoned and began to follow the thread, shaking through all the lazy days and ugly ways that had come to pass between us. she was glowing when i found her. i sat down next to her and she kissed my bloody mouth. together we buried that old cord under the tree. i settled into her spot as she stood up to eye the horizon's far margin. i saw the wanderlust grow in her eyes, and begged her to stay as she began to pull away."

my wife wrote this forevs back on her old blog, moments of grace...

it seems to fit eerily well with this vid and song.

it's impossible to overstate the amazing, that is the understated, that is grouper.

grouper-heavy water/i'd rather be sleeping mp3

pop r/n/b.

2011-04-13T10:59:00.000-07:00

most of my free time is spent listening to variations on this theme.

how to dress well, the weeknd, grimes (britney spears, niki minaj)... seriously, i can't stop... it's all just too fucking good.

how to dress well- waking up to life sometimes seems worse (cover of r.kelly's wish) mp3
the weeknd- high for this (mp3 )
grimes- vanessa (mp3)
N1k1 M1n4J/WhITCH- saAaAaVemEe (drag edit) mp3

the last couple weeks.

2011-04-06T21:04:00.000-07:00

shit been good lately... going backwards...

WHITE RING... w/ TODD PENDU, me, U>L>S>A, and NAKO
(photos by the super awesome attic floc from sf station)

more (as in footage from the salem show, gatekeeper, and an mp3 from white ring) after the jump.
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SALEM.

2011-03-24T09:15:00.000-07:00

so tomorrow night i'm playing in brooklyn for pendu with gatekeeper and streetwalker... if you out here.. check us the fuck out... then next week i is playing a show with salem back in sf. you need to fucking go. here i'mma make it easy for ya. i just started a twitter account and i don't know what the fuck to do with it. so if you follow me and tweet something interesting at me i'll pick a favorite tweet on monday and give away a pair of tickets (the show is on wednesday march 30th at 103 harriet... you can still buy presales here).

17 minutes.

2011-03-21T13:50:00.000-07:00

i really do adore sasha grey. and i'm completely batshit crazy in love with her music/noise project aTelecine... so the fact that the kids over at pendu got this goin' on just made my day.

"PENDU SOUND has released a new 17minute track from ATELECINE (ft. Sasha Grey) to celebrate the Spring Equinox … This exclusive track will be available for download for only 24hrs… "

seriously... get on this shit. it kills. and it's almost gone.

speaking of pendu... i'm playing one of their show with gatekeeper and others on friday in brooklyn...

isaiah the toothtaker.

2011-03-15T10:45:00.000-07:00

photo by dan zev

my homie serge runs a sick blog called beer and rap... and i been buggin' him to spit some shit up in here fer awhile now... he's more than delivered...
this is an interview he did for us with one of my favorite rappers doin' it right now, isaiah the toothtaker. covers every thing from where his name comes from to what happens when you hit a man in the face with a black jack. this shit is fuck-ing real.

it's a long interview... but more than worth the read...
here's a sample (click to hear audio).
" One of them I split his face in half and like his eyeball popped out. He had to have surgery to put his eyeball back in and that’s self defense still. II used a black jack that time but it was like yo, it was versus seven dudes so what if I had a black jack. I could have stabbed each of them in the face and it would have been self defense.

They got me for fucking assault with a deadly weapon, temporary disfigurement, and another like high up assault charge. It was like yo that’s obviously self defense. And like all those motherfuckers even corroborated to say that it was self defense. They all kind of said they tried to jump me, but yet they hemmed me up. I got indited for that shit, caught a felony for it. And the same shit, just cause the cops fuck up police reports and write what ever the fuck they want, doesn’t matter if it’s somebodies life on the line."

his stories are sick, his music is sick.

read the whole interview after the jump. (seriously it's fucking uh-mazing)

TEARIST.

2011-03-11T09:41:00.000-08:00

a week ago today i was high as fuck on sizzurp and drunk as hell on whiskey and tequila trying to hold shit together and dj... it was an amazing night... nako and oOoOO both killed (as usual), rezound was in from new york and he totally fuckin' brought it... but tearist (pronounced tear, as in to rip, ist) may well have kept me alive.

go pick up tearist's record here.

tearist-headless mp3

i'm in love with chelsea wolfe...

2011-03-04T10:42:00.000-08:00

i hope that statement doesn't creep her out. i'm kind of prone to hyperbole... but i'm not sure if that's what's at issue here. the girl is seriously fucking uh-mazing... intelligent, well spoken, and sweet as all hell... then she gets on stage and fucking destroys me. she does what any good performer should. she becomes what she presents.

i talked to her for a bit and got some footage from her performance at noise pop... if y'all missed that shit... don't worry... i'm bringing them back for 120 MINUTES this summer.

showed her this video, and this was her response.
"out of space and time; bottomless and boundless floods.. something died inside me last night, normally that might sound like a bad thing but i think actually it cleared out a fog in my head.. my memory is bringing me all sorts of sounds and colors and days that i could never remember before..."
seriously... fuck-ing love.

go buy her album, the grime and the glow, from pendu right now... fer realz.

chelsea wolfe- halfsleeper mp3

crystal fucking castles... you know you want it.

2011-03-03T10:40:00.000-08:00

generally speaking, i don't spend a lot of time on here talkin' about shit that's already been overhyped... generally speaking, i don't spend a lot of time on here... this isn't really a departure from any of that... it's impossible to overhype crystal castles... they may be on some major shit and all... but seriously they fucking kill it... besides... i have a present fer y'all. how about two guest list spots for tomorrow (friday march 4th) nights show here in sf at the warfield?

yeah... i thought so... more after the jump.
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thizz faced in L.A.

2011-02-17T11:42:00.000-08:00

i went to L.A. last weekend to play for pendu disco's first west coast outing at show cave... also swung through and did a set for killing spree over at medusa lounge. the whole experience was nothing short of perfect. a meeting of like minded individuals from across the country all dedicated to bringing some new shit to kids... art, music, fashion... the shit we all been doing for a long time is being recognized right now, and we jus' gonna keep spittin' it. black is, was, and always will be the new black.
above is just a vid of sarah from killing spree hanging out with a rat named dreamcatcher... and disaro taking a much needed nap. i was high as shit on e when i taped this so... yeah.
and here are some performances show cave after the jump.... king dude and chelsea wolfe.
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Mind Tripping 24/7

2011-02-09T11:00:00.000-08:00

Kathleen Daniel uses software like DAZ3d and blender3d to make animations that combine her unique, free-form, hypnagogic R n B with disarmingly heartfelt and hilarious psychedelic technoscapes.
We've selected a few of our favorites but it was pretty difficult to narrow it down. We highly recommend watching every single one on her website or youtube account.

An interview with Kathleen Daniel and more videos after the jump.

keep the reaper off me

2011-01-15T12:39:00.000-08:00

secretive producer U>L>S>A> is a recent arrival here in SF from London and a member of experimental electronic music projects, Shrieking Abscess and PoSE.

homie is also the new other author of this blog... as evidenced by this here mixtape the kid is absurdly talented and has taste.
glitch, treble, and static heavy... "keep the reaper off me" is like listening to a low signal internet podcast from a sick hip hop selector after smoking a sherm stick... and somehow an analog radio signal keeps bleeding through with news reports and classic country... and your tripping so hard that it all makes perfect sense... especially when it turns in to a slowed down trance room freak out.
basically shit is tight... download it... throw on some headphones... smoke a blunt... and go for a fuckin' walk.

keep the reaper off me (mixtape)- U>L>S>A>
(tracklist after the jump)

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new orleans... n'awlins.

2011-01-11T19:04:00.000-08:00

putting together a new audio/video project called POSE... POSE is to be an extension of the noise sessions i host in my tiny little cottage here in SF on a somewhat regular basis... audio and video manipulation and production... live and sample based creation using various elements in open dialogue. er some shit... basically a band... but a lot of the pieces incorporate visual elements... it may or may not make more sense as it progresses... regardless...
here's a little remix we got to do for former ghosts.
def stoked on this whole deal conceptually... as former ghosts is itself an amazingly realized project from the mind of freddy rupert (this song is a mess and so am i) in conjunction with other absurdly talented, often far-off artists like jamie stewart (xiu xiu), nika roza (zola jesus), and yasmine kittles (tearist)...
freddy sent me the stems for this track a decent while ago... but i've been a bit overwhelmed with gigs and life as of late so it took a second... homeboy said he diggs it. maybe you will too?

NEW ORLEANS (P0SE remxX)- FORMER GHOSTS (P0SE)

...incidently the photo in the beginning of this post is from a photographer by the name of richard misrach from a book entitled destroy this memory... it's an interesting look at the aftermath of hurricane katrina... less morbid than most... but definitively heavy. he gave a lecture i attended at my wife's gallery sf camerawork.

thug night...

2010-12-31T21:11:00.000-08:00

got this in my inbox from turbo city... i have mixed feelings on it overall... maybe i just got a little too excited about the idea... the big thing fer me is the vocals... i think they should be fucked with some. its a bit too clean overall... but promising nonetheless... i def wanna take these trax and chop/dragg and echo them out a bit... there is one i cant get outta my head though...

16 on death row -SALEM vs. 2pac mp3

these seem like good kids to support though... so check 'em out and download a bunch of shit...

good day today.

2010-12-21T23:08:00.000-08:00

david lynch just kinda kills it... always and forever... and i love this track... just heard this boyz noize remix today... feelin' it.

good day today- david lynch (mp3)

good day today (boyz noize remix)- david lynch (mp3)

stop emailing me about it... it's back up. oOoOO/WhITCH 120 mix

2010-12-08T22:06:00.000-08:00

google keeps fuckin my shit up and taking' it down... but i keep getting emails asking for me to put it back up... so here ya go... the 120 minutes mix that me and oOoOO did back in august that the fader did a li'l blurb on...
and fer y'all that dont know... it aint a witch house mix... it's all over the place...
we got a new one coming out soonish... in honor of our move... starting january we gone be at the elbo room on the regular...

december is a drag.

2010-12-08T20:58:00.000-08:00

my nicki minaj edit made it on to this mixtape put out by love cult...
it's a two part mix part 1 by high park... and part 2 by story of isaac... i'm on part 2

highpark:

LOVE CULT PRESENTS: DECEMBER DRAG - A 2 PART MIXTAPE BY HIGH PARK AND STORY OF ISAAC. TORONTO AND LONDON COLLIDE TO BRING YOU THE HOTTEST WITCH HOUSE/DRAG EXPERIENCE OF THE MONTH. LISTEN TO BOTH SIDES TO FEEL THE FULL POWER OF THE LOVE CULT

SIDE A - HIGH PARK

High Park - DECEMBER DRAG MIXTAPE SIDE A (http://highpark.tumblr.com) by LOVE CULT

SIDE B - STORY OF ISAAC

Story Of Isaac - DECEMBER DRAG MIXTAPE (http://highpark.tumblr.com) by LOVE CULT

RESPECT AND REBLOG

r & b

2010-12-05T15:37:00.000-08:00

NOVEMBER LOVE STORY- HIGH PARK (mediafire download)

ThANxXX

2010-11-26T18:15:00.000-08:00

ThANxX

saAaAaVemEe

2010-11-21T00:05:00.000-08:00

li'l video i threw together for the weird goth nicki minaj dragg edit i threw together...

life's a drag.
saAaAaVemEe mp3

unfinished.

2010-11-10T23:43:00.000-08:00

andrew took this polaroid.
andrew and i made this track awhile back... needs some work.

destroyer of worlds (mp3)

rain, pain, and cocaine.

2010-11-09T19:23:00.000-08:00

this is kinda how i remember shit... but i was all kindsa fucked up...

disaro fest from WhITCH on Vimeo.

regardless... had an absurd amount of fun the other week with the DISARO kids... another fun presentation from 120 MINUTES and our friends at NACHTMUSIK.

king dude

water borders

white ring

ENTERTAINMENT also played and they were fucking amazing... unfortunately so far i got no pics of that part of the show... if you do... hit me up.
photos courtesy of SEE THE LEAVES.

post election anhedonia.

2010-11-03T23:41:00.000-07:00

"I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Christian suburbanite
You got money to burn....

Fat bloody fingers are sucking your soul away..."
i kinda hate this country sometimes... oh well.

UNKLE (featuring thom yorke)- rabbit in your headlights (mp3)

aTelecine... experimental music porn.

2010-11-02T23:08:00.000-07:00

holy shit.

no seriously, holy shit. this is completely, fucking amazing. this is the second release from aTelecine through Pendu sound recordings... and it's fucking destroying me. a collection of sound collages made from tape loops, vocals, and instrumentation. at once creepy and reassuring... the sound is completely enveloping. reminiscent of coil... and somehow david lynch. there are even moments that feel like good doom metal should... though significantly more minimal "i came, i sat, i departed" sludges along at a perfectly balanced pace at once lazy and anxious.
i fucking love this shit... you might notice that i never really review music... i just kinda put it out there. probably for the better... but, i kinda can't help it in this case... people need to get on this...

oh yeah... this is also the music project of SASHA GREY... now, i know a fact like that shouldn't be an afterthought... but in this case it kinda is.
fuck... what an amazing afterthought.

aTelecine- i came i sat i departed (mp3)

aTelecine- she is beautiful (mp3)

the present moment...

2010-11-01T21:40:00.000-07:00

so, not fer nothin'... blogger has been kind of a dick lately... hopefully i don't incur their wrath any further by making this statement. but they've had me all fucked up in the game for some dayz now. and by that i mean weeks. i haven't been able to post for awhile and my 120 MINUTES mix that the FADER had featured has been down as well... it would seem, that someone somewhere objected to something in the track listing of side b? same issue with box.net... so whoever you is, random nameless entity that doesn't understand or appreciate mixtapes, eat a bag of dix. I even have a li'l disclaimer on the side of this here blog asking if anyone has any issue to let me know and i will voluntarily take shit down... but... life's a bitch... and apparently that bitch can't read.

moving on... we been working on a remix for this track "million to one" by THE PRESENT MOMENT.
here is an unfinished version... the original is sick... hopefully ya'll dig what we got on it. feel free to throw out feedback... def gonna tweak the vocals a bit more.

the present moment- million to one (mp3)

WhITCH_vs_U>L>S>A- 1000000/2/1ReMxXX (mp3)

being busy is it's own kind of drug... sometimes stimulant, sometimes depressant, sometimes hallucinogenic...120 MINUTES MIXTAPE

2010-10-16T15:01:00.000-07:00

so google is a bitch and keeps taking this tape down fer no good reason... but peeps keep asking me to put it back up... so here we go again... this is the original post with new links fer the download... tracklisting is embeded in the file.
me and oOoOO are gonna be doin' a new 120 mix soon...

sorry it's been a second... and then some. i've been working on a lot of projects. one of which was this mixtape. i actually finished it weeks ago, but again, the overwhelming crazy that is my life as of late has kept it on the back burner. but here it is, in all its random glory... the particularly amazing part is that side b was mixed by none other than oOoOO... yep that's right, one of the high priests of "witch house" has helped to bring you a fabulous romp through crazytown filled with everything from creeptastic meena kumari remixes to...

120 Minutes is a club night i'm throwing here in san francisco... a video dance club and showcase for independent music... on august 28th LIGHT ASYLUM is playing... it's gonna be absurdly amazing.

side a

side b

domestic violence

2010-09-30T13:38:00.000-07:00

short film by rza called domestic violence... and an mp3 for the track of the same name... by far my favorite bobby digital track evs... and homeboy made a lot of ill shit.

bobby digital-domestic violence mp3

ain't it fun? (when you know that yer gonna die young)

2010-09-28T20:33:00.000-07:00

rocket from the tombs- ain't it fun

SALEM//ASIA//VIDEO

2010-09-26T10:11:00.000-07:00

i know i've been doing a lot of shit about salem up here recently... but with king night comin' out and all... there's a lot goin' on. this video is kinda perfect... shot on vhs... grainy and dark. i fucking love it.

if you want this track or the oOoOO remix look at this post.

in the mean time... here's an oldie but goodie
salem-ohk mp3

moon.

2010-09-23T21:46:00.000-07:00

super harvest moon last night... that's right i said super. as in mega...
balam acab is the shit... this song fucking rules your world... as does this fan video.
balam acab- see birds (moon) mp3
(...and this font.)

oOoOO SALEM...

2010-09-20T13:50:00.000-07:00

i've been listening to this remix for like a week now, and it's been hell not sharing it with folx. it's been officially put out into the rest of the universe now so here you go.

salem- asia mp3

salem- asia(oOoOO RMXx) mp3

based god

2010-09-19T11:58:00.000-07:00

"But point blank anything with Lil B cost $ for real, I´m talking playboy $$ mansion money. I´m honestly a living legend and its weird I know it. And also if you’re thugging super hard adopt a pet. Honestly, a cat. It will relax you. A baby cat at that. ASPCA I love you! Adopt baby cats!"
-Li'l B the Based God

memories pt 1 based freestyle- lil b (mp3)

i'd rather be sleeping.

2010-09-15T08:44:00.000-07:00

seriously... i really would... i just want to be able to close my eyes and drift back on a sea of fuzz and melody into some kind of lynchian dreamscape.
i can't believe we didn't go to this show... we had free tickets and all but were all screwed up in the game from having just got off an airplane... oh well... grouper is amazing.

grouper-heavy water/i'd rather be sleeping mp3

grouper-heavy water (phaseone edit) mp3

¡viva los muertos!

2010-09-13T18:03:00.000-07:00

it's getting closer to dia de los muertos/all hallows eve/samhain/what have you... and I'm getting antsy; so me and some friends are putting together a li'l mini festival in honor of all things dark and wicked. The details are in the works right now, but what i can tell you is that we are bringing the disaro records family to the table on this and things are going to be fucking insane... dark and sweaty with some drunk thrown in.

here's a preview of the lineup.

White Ring-lxC999

King Dude-my beloved ghost

Water Borders-even in the dark

oOoOO-hearts

sleep.

2010-09-11T21:46:00.000-07:00

ughh... absurdly exhausted. been on a particularly manic swing for some weeks now, and i'm pretty sure it's finally catching up to me... but i think this will help. it's a mix my wife made sometime back, and it's definitively got a witching hour kinda vibe to it...
solid dreamy jams to fade away to. (mp3)
(no track list, but i'll go through and amend that later)

season of the witch.

2010-09-09T09:59:00.000-07:00

my friend brian did this as a b side to my witchtape awhile back, and i can't get several parts of it out of my head... so as with everything else, i figure i might as well post it here...

i am not exactly sure of the complete track listing on it... but before he sent me the tape he initially gave me this awesome set of linx to most of the trax on youtube.

nina hagen- witch dance
aphex twin- logon rock witch
burning witch- communion
witch- lazy bones
julie driscoll- season of the witch
coven- white witch of rose hall
The Lollipop shoppe- you must be a witch
october country- my girlfriend is a witch

all solid songs about witches... here is an mp3 of the tape if yer down.

market virus- witchtape side b

...and here is a protection chant to protect you from evil... you should do this before and after doing spells... visualize your self sitting in the middle of the pentagram, facing upwards with 3 circles of purple light round you
and say: "THRICE AROUND THE CIRCLE'S BOUND SINK ALL
EVIL TO THE GROUND" say it three times and end it
with "SO MOTE IT BE"
word.

Je T'aime

2010-09-09T08:54:00.000-07:00

i can't for the life of me come anywhere near speaking french... but that fact doesn't make me want to fuck jane birkin any less... nor does it make me blind to the fact, that as creepy as he was, serge gaisbourg may well have been the sexiest man to ever live. the french used to really have a rap on shit.

...sorry, woke up and looked around tumblr for a sec... that shit always makes me a bit lascivious.

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg-Je T'aime Moi Non Plus (mp3)

twins.

2010-09-08T08:26:00.000-07:00

this song has been stuck in my head off and on for several years now... now you can have it stuck in yours.

aphex twin- avril 14th.

high on pills...

2010-09-07T08:49:00.000-07:00

and listening to screw... i miss that motherfucker... not that i was lucky enough to know him in any capacity... but dammit i miss him. so much of what i listen to and care about musically couldn't have possibly happened if it weren't fer him. his mixes have just the right amount of warm, blanketed, eerie, emptiness to 'em. sizzurp is a helluva drug.

so is dilaudid...

here's a screw remix of eazy e (just click and download). him i miss too... but not nearly as much.

whats my name- eazy e (dj screw mix)

...and here's a salem remix of gucci with the same kinda vibe to it...

salem x gucci mane-bird flu

T and A

2010-09-06T12:40:00.000-07:00

i interact with my tumblr significantly more often than i do with this here blog... there are a few key reasons for that... one is obviously ease of use... i don't have to think much, it's more of a scrapbook than anything else... two, it feels significantly more social... people respond to what i post and do so quickly and quantifiably... it has a good sense of instant gratification to it... three, there is just so much more nudity involved... tumblr is a bit more comfortable with explicit material.
in light of the amount of traffic i've been getting here as of late, i aim to even out this equation a bit. i will make a concerted effort to post to this blog daily... and to throw in some nudity now and then... and of course musix... mp3's of shit that strikes my fancy and mixtapes... i swear i will throw out some more mixtapes... since the fader thing i keep getting emails asking for more mixes... so keep an eye out. they are coming... i promise... in the meantime, feel free to check out a couple of the older ones (linx on the right side of this page)...

8 songs randomly played from itunes when the word sex was typed in... (click trax fer mp3's)
air-sexy boy
cold cave- sex ads (painted nails 7")
tricky- sex drive
alien sex fiend- i walk the line
miranda sex garden-monk song
gil scot heron-sex education ghetto style
fasta boys-i aint had sex in a long time
the ravonettes-dirty eyes (sex dont tell)

death rattle.

2010-08-31T15:32:00.000-07:00

yesterday, my niece asked "don't you wish you weren't alive all the time, so you could lay down in heaven."

word.
there's a company out of the UK called AND VINYLY that will press your ashes into vinyl. so now you can haunt 30 of your closest friends with a mixtape of your mortality.
here's a rough draft of mine... in case it comes up before i have a chance to get something more formal together.
(click trax fer mp3's)
nick cave and the bad seeds-the mercy seat
johnny mandel-suicide is painless
daniel knox-ghostsong
rocket from the tombs-ain't it fun
coil-who'll fall
i think i might also record my own version of dust in the wind sometime in the next couple weeks.

beyond all that, last saturday was pretty ill... so much so that i just said ill. we had the first installment of 120 MINUTES (a night i'm throwing here in SF). LIGHT ASYLUM played an amazing show, oOoOO, Harrison, and Josh killed it with their DJ sets... and i felt solid on my audio/video set...

shannon from light asylum

oOoOO

crowd feelin' it

me and john (from SALEM)

speaking of... check out this video for king night. honestly... no idea if it's official... been busy as fuck and out of the loop lately... but, regardless it's hot as all shit. dark and tripped out... magic.

Salem - King Night from Sean Michael Pheanis on Vimeo.

MOTHERTONGUE.

2010-08-22T12:49:00.000-07:00

MOTHERTONGUE is this big crazy freakout, in the santa cruz mountains, i was invited to play... and i'm absurdly excited about the whole ordeal. i mean how often do you get to play records along side several of your favorite bands at a haunted lodge in the redwoods?

"Nestled deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains lies the historic Brookdale lodge. Surrounded by giant redwoods, Brookdale Lodge was originally opened in 1870 as the headquarters of the Grover Lumber Mill. The mill was purchased by H.J. Logan of Loganberry fame in 1900 and was converted into campgrounds and a hotel. Since then the lodge has passed through numerous hands.

Between 1922 and 1945 the lodge was operated by Dr. F. K. Camp, a Seventh-day Adventist physician and a strict prohibitionist. It was Camp that built the magnificent Brookroom, a dining room that encloses a natural stream flowing down its center. This was the lodge's heyday. The Brookdale was the second most popular resort in California and played host to Hollywood stars, prominent families, foreign diplomats, and even a U.S. President. Famous persons passing through Brookdale Lodge included: Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Tyrone Power, Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth, Hedy Lamarr, and President Herbert Hoover. The lodge was also famous for its first rate entertainment, attracting the best big band and swing groups of the era. There are at least three swing era songs written about the Brookdale including, My Brookdale Hideaway, A Place known as Brookdale, and Beautiful Brookdale Lodge.

Shortly before his death, Dr. Camp sold the property in 1945 to A. T. Cook and W. G. Smith. In 1951 it was again sold to a consortium of San Francisco businessmen and then to Barney Marrow, who also owned the Brookdale Inn across the highway.

It was in the '40's and '50's that the lodge entered its most intriguing period, becoming a home for gangsters and other shady characters. Secret passageways and hidden rooms were installed throughout the lodge and rumors of buried bodies under the floor began to circulate. Also during this time, six year old Sarah Logan, the niece of the lodge owner, drowned in the dining room creek. It's her ghost that is most often seen at the Brookdale. But Sarah wasn't the only watery death at the lodge. In 1972, a 13 year old girl drowned in the kidney shaped pool above the mermaid room forcing its closure.

The Manifestations:

Over the years there have been many sightings of little Sarah Logan. She is often seen in a white and blue Sunday dress walking through the lobby or near the fireplace between the lounge and Brookroom. She has also been seen playing on the balcony of the Brookroom, an area off limits to visitors and guests, and sitting beside the fire in the Fireside Room.

Some have even been approached by the crying Sarah asking if they could help her find her mother. As they turn to look for the little girl's mother, Sarah vanishes. The sightings aren't limited to visitors. The owners of Brookdale Lodge have also seen Sarah running about the lodges' lobby. From their description, Sarah was, "very clear, like a whole person" and wore a 1940's style formal dress. She ran silently across the lobby for about five seconds before disappearing through the office window. The owners must have been quite "spooked" because soon after the they hired several priests and psychics to try and rid the lodge of its spirits.

The niece isn't the only paranormal activity visitors to the lodge have experienced. In the Mermaid Room visitors have experienced hearing voices, the clinking of glasses, and soft music when the room was empty. The jukebox located here has been known to turn itself on and off when nobody is near it.

The stream running through the Brookroom:

When the Brookroom is empty you can sometimes hear glasses and plates clinking and people talking as if dozens of ghostly diners are having a meal. A ghostly woman, has been seen walking over the brook as if supported by a bridge removed long ago. Psychics speculate that she is the mother of Sarah Logan returned to find her daughter. The smell of gardenias often permeates the room at night although there are no gardenias in the Brookroom or the lodge. Could this be the perfume of Sarah's mother?

Big band music has been heard playing faintly in the Fireside Room and in the Pool Room. People have also reported cold spots, presences, and even being touched by unseen forces in the Pool Room.

Late at night doors slam and footsteps are often heard in empty rooms. They are particularly loud from the second floor conference room. Many have reported strange smells and having a sense that the room is full of people when it is empty. Psychics have identified one of the conference room spirits as a man by the name of George. He is a lumberjack and has also been encountered behind the lodge at a place where in the lodge's early years they chopped wood for its many fireplaces.

In the 1970's a wing of motel rooms was built over the spot where once stood the lodge's camping cabins. Room 46 of the motel wing is reported to be very haunted. A woman who worked at the lodge in exchange for lodging has reported that at night objects and shapes would fly across the room. Ghostly ballroom dancers would swirl around leering at her as they floated by. Ghosts would materialize around her bed, their faces sometimes vague and sometimes very very clear. One of the ghosts was a little boy, perhaps 12 or 13 years old, another was a man with his eye hanging loose on his cheek, and still another was a man with a knife wound across his face. Not all of her experiences in room 46 were visual. She also reports that once she felt somebody sit on the edge of her bed and stroke her arm.

The current owners have been told by psychics that, in all, there are 49 spirits in residence at the Brookdale. Enough to make it more than worth a visit.

Anytime you visit I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the charm, beauty, history, and the wonderful "live" entertainment provided by the lodge. To see exactly what I mean you'll just have to visit for yourself."
(taken from the haunted bay website.)

...and here are 13 "ghost" songs from my itunes library that came up when i pressed shuffle on the key word ghost... (ps. if you ever wanna hear the best shuffle mixes ever check out clumsy and shy...)

"ghost" mp3's (click to grab some mp3 from suicide, j.dilla, ghostface, microphones, texas gladden, former ghosts, ghost, daniel knox, girls, etc.)

the importance of synchronicity and happenstance: part 2

2010-07-19T22:41:00.001-07:00

so again... i believe very strongly in the concept and importance of synchronicity, as an incredibly powerful manifestation of magic.
as i stated in my last post, said magic has been working very well for me... through a long series of these synchronicity's i have put together an evening of absolute amazing that will be happening here in san francisco on saturday the 28th of august. these synchronicity's have not yet ceased and are creating an ever greater and more fantastic reality for me and you to enjoy...
i have, through no effort of my own, but instead solely through happenstance, begun working with a few other promoters (some of them old friends, some of them new... but all of them incredibly talented and tasteful), to bring this event into fruition.
...and of course there is more... i now have oOoOO (amazing witchhouse project featured on that mixtape salem did for the fader awhile back) booked to do a dj set (along with myself and Nako)(not to mention to play live on september 25th, but more about that later)... this is seriously going to be one of the most amazing events i could ever even witness, much more, be a part of.
..oh, one more thing... the night is entitled 120 minutes (the last two hours will be all music videos) and as promotion i will be releasing a mixtape in the next week or two featuring a 60 minute long A-side mixed by me and 60 minute long B-side mixed by oOoOO. more news on that to come.

oOoOO-i live for the day (mp3)

if you dig that track, which of course you do, check out the triangle records comp dis magazine put out that it is featured on... all lyndsay lohan covers... all fucking great.

the importance of synchronicity and happenstance.

2010-07-15T13:35:00.000-07:00

i believe very strongly in magic... and one of the most powerful ways it presents itself is through synchronicity and happenstance. synchronicity was defined by Jung as a meaningful coincidence of an external event with a psychic event, such as a dream, fantasy, or thought... these events coincide in time in a way that gives them meaning for the observer. that is, they seem as communications between a divine force and ourselves, and they confirm that there is a connection or interaction between our psyche and physical reality. this to me is magic... and Jung would generally seem to agree...

...but i digress... the point here is to explain the amazing that is taking place in my life right now... all around me, every day, i have been witness to these happy happenstances. my favorite example shall be explained in part now, and in part in an upcoming post.
yesterday i noticed an all to familiar sight that for various reasons always provokes me to intervene... actually intervene is completely the wrong word because there was no nobility or heroics involved... i just get bored and hate it when i see people i very much appreciate not getting along... you see, there was random nonsensical social networking drama... one of those situations that arises because it's very hard to truly convey sarcasm on the interwebs... and two people who i know and have known for years, but who don't know eachother, were somehow unhappily interacting... this led me to click some buttons and chat with both of them and randomly tell them that the other person involved was also an amazing person and it was likely a weird misunderstanding... again... kinda pointless, but i was bored.. the important part of this is what follows... one of said friends is an individual by the name of patrick (who runs an absolutely fantastic blog called cobain in a coma), and as i was chatting with patrick he made some mention of one of my favorite bands LIGHT ASYLUM, and one of my fave people lauren devine... so i decided to chat with lauren... and she put me in contact with light asylum's touring manager... so to make a short story long...

LIGHT ASYLUM is playing here in SF ON AUGUST 28th.

light asylum-shallow tears (mp3)

house witch.witch house

2010-07-13T14:22:00.000-07:00

Chili pepper seeds are wonderful for protective magick and repelling. Wash them, let them dry out, and then place them in a
little glass jar with a lid. Bless your seeds in any way you wish... Make a label for your jar that reads whatever you like.
You can use the seeds to banish negativity from your home whenever you feel the need.
There are two methods for this:

1. Sprinkle a few seeds around your kitchen or home and then vacuum or sweep them out the back door. (it's best not to sweep toward your front door as you might remove your homes luck.)
2. Place some seeds in a mortar and ground them to a powder. Sprinkle the powder where needed and the proceed to vacuum or sweep up. Discard out your back door.

one of my favorite witch-house (drag) projects right now is oOoOO... and lovely enough it would appear they are based out of san francisco. me too. now i just need to put together a show for them.

oOoOO-no shore (mp3)

random weird... one of my favorite blogs, black pyramid, did a post on me.

the black lodge.

2010-07-02T21:14:00.000-07:00

worked a new noise project with a good friend the other day... when we were putting the gear away he directed my attention to a blog entitled black lodge soul promotions. the content in this post has nothing to do with said blog (other than the link that leads to it)... but i need to find a way to properly thank him. maybe this jimmy scott song from the last episode of twin peaks will be an acceptable start.

jimmy scott- sycamore trees (mp3)

"all that livin that you're savin' won't buy your dreams for you"

2010-06-25T10:55:00.000-07:00

townes van zandt, texas troubadour:

"Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." — Steve Earle

"I've met Bob Dylan and his bodyguards, and I don't think Steve could get anywhere near his coffee table." — Townes Van Zandt

townes van zandt- waiting around to die (mp3)

(from an old post jennifer put up on bmbf)

we knew the world would not be the same.

2010-06-24T10:56:00.000-07:00

“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one.”

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

"Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday,
words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied.
These games you play, they're gonna end in more than tears someday
Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away
Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
Enola Gay, it shouldn't fade in our dreams away
It's 8:15, and that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today
this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away"

Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. The Hiroshima prefectural health department estimates that, of the people who died on the day of the explosion, 60% died from flash or flame burns, 30% from falling debris and 10% from other causes. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness. In a more plausible estimate of the total immediate and short term cause of death, 15–20% died from radiation sickness, 20–30% from flash burns, and 50–60% from other injuries, compounded by illness. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians.

OMD- Enola Gay (mp3)

summertime suicide.

2010-06-10T07:09:00.000-07:00

ice cream, beaches, and heartache.
wonder what it's like to try and cut your wrist with a popsicle stick?

just got back from mexico and made this:
summersuicide mix.
health- we are water
warpaint- krimson
aphex twin- avril 14th
OoOoO- nosummer4u
scott walker (haloperidol remix)- plastic palace syzurp (walker mixtape edit)
gravediggaz- 1800-suicide
salem- frost
primal scream- darklands
zola jesus- night
black sabbath- electric funeral (venetian snares dubstep remix)
sonic youth- i dream i dreamed
amber asylum- garden of love

ashes to ashes.

2010-05-11T17:40:00.000-07:00

During the rise of the state hospital system, tens of thousands of patients with schizophrenia, severe bipolar, and other (at the time) seemingly untreatable mental disorders were abandoned by their families to spend the rest of their lives in the back wards of public mental institutions.
The only physical memorial that stands to the plight of these forgotten souls are the thousands of brass urns filled with the unclaimed ashes of society's mistakes. These urns are currently stored in a building at the Oregon State Hospital.

David Maisel’s large-scale photographs display the copper canisters that hold these ashes. The Oregon State Hospital, in Salem, inaugurated as the Oregon State Insane Asylum in 1883, stored the remains of over 5000 people in canisters in an underground vault in the mid-1970s. The vault flooded repeatedly, and the canisters—some containing unclaimed remains more than a 100 years old—underwent spectacular processes of deterioration.
Maisel writes of his work: “The copper canisters have a handmade quality; they are at turns burnished or dull; corrosion blooms wildly from the leaden seams and across the surfaces of many of the cans. Numbers are stamped into each lid; the lowest number is 01, and the highest is 5,118. The vestiges of paper labels with the names of the dead, the etching of the copper, and the intensely hued colors of the blooming minerals combine to individuate the canisters. These deformations sometimes evoke the celestial — the Northern Lights, the moons of some alien planet, or constellations in the night sky.” David Maisel’s Library of Dust is the subject of a large-scaled monograph released by Chronicle Books in 2008.

david bowie- ashes to ashes (mp3)

cornell's library has witches.

2010-02-11T17:27:00.000-08:00

this is officially my new favorite resource.
"It documents the earliest and the latest manifestations of the belief in witchcraft as well as its geographical boundaries, and elaborates this history with works on canon law, the Inquisition, torture, demonology, trial testimony, and narratives. Most importantly, the collection focuses on witchcraft not as folklore or anthropology, but as theology and as religious heresy."

i will be going through it piece by piece until i've picked it clean...

and then likely dive back in for a more detailed account.

i promise to offer up bits and pieces along the way.
...in the meantime here is a quick mix i made with respect to witches and magic makers to hold you over until i finish some larger projects.

witchtape.mp3

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff-82C) No. 78 First Series
Twink-Dawn Of Magic
Kate Bush-Waking The Witch
The Pastels-Magic Nights
Zola Jesus-Somebody To Love (Featuring Dead Luke)
Witch-Seer
Fever Ray (w/ Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid-Stranger Than Kindness
Salem-Frost

a spell

2010-02-06T01:04:00.000-08:00

this is a spell i wrote awhile back...

anti-anxiety spell...
even though jung is often discredited in psych community because of his association with the analysts, as well as his more esoteric ideas on the collective unconscious, he is still considered one of the more brilliant individuals to have ever lived and many of his ideas are integral to modern theory, culture, and critique... he had a lot to say on the importance of dreams, art and mysticism and their value in combination with logical positivism...
dreams, art and mythology are some of many good means of confrontation and alleviation of anxiety built up through schemas of thought and role conflict...
i personally find that anything that involves ritualism, chanting, repetition, confrontation, and a lack of overall seriousness helps me quite measurably.
its kind of about immersion... so it's best to watch it close up, full screen, with the volume up... whenever you watch it, watch it all the way through to the end, it gets less overwhelming as it goes along... and try and watch it in a dark room at least once a day for a week or two.
...so, i hope this helps you in some way...
(it's made up of several audio and video sources i mixed together... some of them produced by me, some of them appropriated and highly processed and distorted... fire, zombies, children, chanting, rhythm... )

keyword: magic

2010-02-01T18:19:00.000-08:00

excessively generous, randomly generated mixtape monday... it should be noted that track 2, magic sequence, is actually a mixtape put together by memory tapes awhile back... don't thank me, thank i-tunes' search engine.
1. Dawn Of Magic / Twink 1:45
2. Magic Sequence / Memory Tapes 29:34
3. Magic Colors / Lesley Gore 2:40
4. 10.Magic / Nagamatzu 4:22
5. computer games (photonz edit) / Yello... 7:20
6. Energy Fools The Magician / Brian Eno 2:08
7. The Magic Touch / The Platters 2:43
8. Magic Mountain / Blonde Redhead 3:03
9. The Magic Yard / Lubos Fiser 5:47
10. Magic Aum Gigi - Love Potion 26 / Aci... 2:18
11. Merlin The Magician / Rick Wakeman 8:55
12. Magic Nights / the Pastels 1:16
13. The Magic Number / De La Soul 3:17
14. I Was Made To Love Magic / Nick Drake 3:28
15. The Magician / Clinic 2:41
16. magic hours / explosions in the sky 8:29
17. Billy The Kid's Dream Of The Magic Shoes/ The Mountain Goats 2:06
18. Magical Mystery Tour / The Beatles 2:52

on the theme of magic and mixtapes here is a link to an amazing artist i used to know.

Hoodoo Your Love
2010
dimensions variable
"Who Do You Love" 45 RPM record by Bo Diddley, beeswax, wick, jar, honey, binding spell, orris root, rose petals, coriander seed, witch grass & cumin seed.
and a mixtape of hers...
"you can take it with you" harmonic spheres: work and mixtape by anne jordan regan

01. billie holiday...strange fruit
02. st. james infirmary...james booker
03. robert johnson...love in vain
04. howlin' wolf...moanin' for my baby
05. bo diddley...who do you love
06. lightnin' hopkins...mojo hand
07. willie dixon...the seventh son
08. charley patton...screamin' & hollerin' the blues
09. son house...john the revelator
10. blind willie johnson...lord i just can't keep from crying
11. lead belly...take this hammer
12. blind willie mctell...southern can mama
13. the reverend j.m. gates...baptize me

me and the devil

2010-01-17T16:34:00.000-08:00

it's been a moment or two since i've payed attention.
so here we are, catching up on payments...
here's gil scott's new digs... me and the devil

...and a bunch of (17) songs pulled at random via a word search on my computer.

"devil"
Jeroen Van Veen-Solodevilsdance IV (S.t. Holt)
Misfits-Devilock
High On Fire-Devilution
Antony & The Johnsons-Shake That Devil
bruce haack-Mean Old Devil
Texas Gladden-The Devil & the Farmer's Wife
The Dramatics-The Devil Is Dope
PJ Harvey-The Devil
Scary Sounds - Sound Effects and Music-devils ride
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds-Up Jumped The Devil
Charles Manson-Devil man
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs-Devil do
Sufjan Stevens-In The Devil's Territory
Daniel Johnston-Devil town
INXS-devil inside
Brownie McGhee-Dealing With The Devil
Electric Wizard-Devil's Bride
Cowboy Junkies-Me And The Devil Blues

with jaded eyes and features... you think they really care?

2009-11-24T23:27:00.000-08:00

anybody who's anybody is a busybody everybody. as evidenced in the plethora of mediums Maximilla Lukacs' work shows up in. good stuff all around, but i'm particularly taken by these two videos at present... the first because it reminds me of the intro to the wonder years via my childhood (read as: small town punk rocker with nothing to do)... the second (done for her boyfriend Guy Blakesle's Entrance Band) because it feels like a psyched out Maya Daren treatment of sorts...

most of what she does are shot for shot remakes of well known experimental awesomeness... but she grabs from good places, and if Tarentino can make a career of it, why not someone more attractive?
pajo-where eagles dare mp3
the entrance band-grim reaper blues mp3

wisconsin death trip has a flikr.

2009-10-22T21:50:00.000-07:00

seriously amazing.

Wisconsin Death Trip is a non-fiction book by Michael Lesy, first published in 1973. It has been adapted into a film.
The book is based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick, mostly in the city of Black River Falls, and local news reports from the same period. It emphasizes the harsh aspects of Midwestern rural life under the pressures of crime, disease, mental illness, and urbanization.

the film is currently available streaming on netflix... so you might want to get on that...

and here are some reading's from Lesy's book... this was put out on CDR some years back... (link to mp3's)

"Hillbilly noir from Butchertown Allstars; i.e. - 10 musicians reincarnate Wisconsin Death Trip. 46 tracks range from 20 to 90 seconds, comprised of male and female spoken stories accompanied by sounds spliced of vast scope ranging from old-timey dust bowl blues to free jazz to alien forcep electronics (all performed by the Butchertown Allstars). The result is timeless, sounding as if it was recorded anytime over the last 100 years. Highly reccomended for suicidial introverts! Based on Michael Lesy's classic book "Wisconsin Death Trip", an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls dating from the 1890's and married a selection of these images to extracts from the town's newspaper from the same decade. It is from these extracts that Butchertown Allstars bring back to life the tropes of hidden lives, suicide, familial disaster, cross-dressing, acute paranoia, drug addiction, schizophrenia, 'crazy socialists' and myriad tales of ordinary madness."

side b... still have a fever. thought i'd try DayQuil.

2009-10-15T19:28:00.000-07:00

side b... still feverish... dayquil, so a bit less of a mess. (mp3)

air:suicides underground.
acid mothers temple:universe of romance.
tamaryn:mild confusion.
suede: asphalt world.
john cage:radio music (edit).
goblin:suspiria.
bauhaus:the three shadows part 2.
silver mt. zion:13 angels standing guard 'round the side of your bed.
allen ginsberg:america.
cranes:in the night.
mum:the land between solar systems.
low:words.
caretaker:reflection

like i said... it's on a cassette... so if you want it... you got it.

i have the flu.

2009-10-14T21:21:00.000-07:00

sippin' on sizzurp: NyQuil mix side a (mp3)

coil:original chaostrophy.
butchertown allstars:9 (readings from wisconsin death trip).
zola jesus:sinfonia and the shrew.
songs of green pheasant:fires P.G.R.
transient waves:paradise.
animal collective/beachboys: i'm waiting for my banshee.
animal collective:loch raven.
death in vegas:girls.
coil-light shining darkly.
the caretaker:it's all forgotten now.
daniel knox:ghostsong.
paavoharju:ikuisuuden maailma.
fever ray:stranger than kindness.
black dice:roll up.
death in june:fields of rape.
the caretaker:cloudy, since you went away.
stevie nicks:rhiannon (piano demo).
salem:frost.
coldcave:our tears help the flowers grow.

too much cough medicine does some fucked up shit... as in way too much... i could barely stand by the end.
...and it shows.

(if you want a copy of this on cassette, just send me your address)

life in san francisco

2009-09-21T21:33:00.001-07:00

sorry it's been a busy couple weeks... here's an i-phone photo update.
(...and of course the b-side for lust for life single, life in san francisco. for those of you that live outside of san francisco, 'album' comes out tomorrow.)

girls- life in san francisco mp3

CLEAR DARK

2009-09-02T16:48:00.000-07:00

clear dark is a perfect li'l image based zine featuring the work of daniel hipolito... and it feels like trying to remember dreams.
you should contact him and order one.

amber asylum- garden of love mp3

xasthur- a walk beyond utter blackness mp3

april march and los cincos- theme for the lime cafe mp3

townes van zandt- our mother the mountain mp3

"I began Clear Dark in 1995. Originally it was a freeform, non-linear, semi-autobiographical, narrative, noir, comic book-style zine. I always intended to suggest things as a story and not tell events directly.

As time went on I began to increase the production value, to draw without dialog, and with less and less panels per page, until ending up with something more abstract yet photorealistic, and psychedelic yet less delirious. The last issue, number 8, took many hours over many years to complete. As with many artists, I imagine my work to be a distillation of what I am and what I've seen. I suppose there's been a lot happening."

the above is the statement daniel gave in explanation of clear dark... i also asked him for a few songs to sketch out a soundtrack. spending time with these images and sounds stimulates some very strange and particular feelings... as though these are my panels of moments having happened in my life... or, again, in some sort of dream i've had... incidentally, here are the songs i was listening to before daniel sent me his list.
silver mount zion- 13 angels standing guard 'round the side of your bed mp3
jimmy scott- sycamore trees mp3
elvis presley- blue moon (sun records)mp3
daniel knox- ghostsong (johnsdemo)mp3

memory

2009-08-27T15:36:00.000-07:00

memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing the memory. The late nineteenth and early twentieth century put memory within the paradigms of cognitive psychology. In recent decades, it has become one of the principal pillars of a branch of science called cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary link between cognitive psychology and neuroscience. (wiki)

been thinking about memory quite a lot lately... specifically about how malleable it is. how different individuals recall the same situations in completely different ways. memory is a reconstructive process, so when you recall something you are essentially taking some scattered associations and using them to make up a story.
in thinking about this i remembered this photographer jennifer had told me about who had a show at the sf camerawork gallery...
liz steketee.
"i alter, chop, merge, and recompose photographic elements. this process allows me to represent a moment, a memory of life's reality as i see it. i disrupt linear structures and confuse elements of time to convey my notions of how life truly exists; a combination of independent moments that converge to leave us with a unique experience."
i am particularly drawn to a series she did called "reconstructed memories" where she took her old family photographs and rearranged various elements and subjects in them to suit her own recollection and whim. putting together people who may not have known eachother or even been alive at the same time... the result is a little bit creepy and a lotta bit beautiful.

haven't really been into cat power/chan marshall for some time... but this bare bones cover kinda kills it... in a good way.
cat power-remember me (otis redding cover)mp3

bohemian babe

2009-08-24T21:27:00.000-07:00

mina loy was a poet, playwright, novelist, artist, actress, and designer. she was beloved by gertrude stein, t.s. eliot, and ezra pound, to name but a few. it's not hard to see why...

this is one of my all-time favorite poems, courtesy of ms. mina loy:

There is no Life or Death
Only activity
And in the absolute
Is no declivity.
There is no Love or Lust
Only propensity
Who would possess
Is a nonentity.
There is no First or Last
Only equality
And who would rule
Joins the majority.
There is no Space or Time
Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity.

click on this handwritten poem to see it bigger:

a drawing and a gouache painting:

and of course, the obligatory man ray portrait:

get to know her... i highly recommend the lost lunar baedeker. and while you're at it... get to know zola jesus as well.

zola jesus-clay bodies mp3

the caretaker.

2009-08-18T21:46:00.000-07:00

i've been watching a lot of twin peaks lately.
and jennifer was playing the caretaker all morning... and somehow the two make a lot of sense together.
the caretaker-cloudy since you went away mp3
the caretaker-it's all forgotten now mp3
he takes old ballroom 78's and slows 'em down, adds a bunch of reverb, some field recordings... and generally makes them super creepy in every possible way... the result is amazing... absolutely amazing.
there is a fabulous interview with/article about him in cyclic defrost magazine... an australian publication that apparently focuses on "interesting music".
speaking of twin peaks/interesting music... have you listened to the twin peaks/black metal inspired, love song to the wind that is the new mount eerie album winds poem?
seriously, listen to this song (and yes that is a sample from laura's theme).
mount eerie-between two mysteries mp3

witchcraft.

2009-08-17T18:59:00.000-07:00

here, download and listen to this right now.
witchcraft-her sisters they were weak mp3

for some reason or other recently i've become re-infatuated with the occult... (as a kid i had fancied myself a witch... performing half assed spells with candles and a little bloodletting... even carved the rune of protection into my hand deep enough that the scar still persists in bringing a smile to my face from time to time.) now as goth as all this might sound, it was really just some typical 'misunderstood' middle school kid bullshit... one part new age hippie town, one part broken home, one part 'the craft'...
it's just lame i didn't spend enough time studying wicca, paganism and the church of satan a bit more closely so as to have walked away with a broader understanding of the diverse concepts of spirituality and the universe the various sects had to offer...particularly with regard to style.

stevie nicks-rhiannon (piano demo) mp3
strangely, i'm not usually a big fleetwood mac fan... but these demos of stevie solo on the piano (and copious amounts of pills, cocaine, and booze) are absolutely amazing.

stevie nicks-sisters of the moon (piano demo) mp3

stevie nicks-planets of the universe (piano demo) mp3
there is definitely some amazing magical component to her awesomeness with regard to these demos... witchy woman.
i'm thinking about going to witchfest international in november... but it's in london so i would have to crash with friends...

on a vaguely related note, suspiria, a club night in san francisco based entirely on the perfect style and cold atmospheric music of the dario argento film suspiria, is having it's last hoorah this wednesday eve... and i very much think all should attend.

for good measure, here's a copy of the insanely amazing title track to suspiria's soundtrack by goblin.
goblin-susperia mp3

books.

2009-08-13T16:56:00.000-07:00

yesterday was my anniversary... and my wifey, being the amazingly perfect and intuitive person she is, realized (subconsciously, without looking it up) that the traditional gift one gives on their one year anniversary is something made of paper (the modern gift being something having to do with clocks, but who has any interest in modernity these days?)... so i, in turn, received a book, and a fabulous one at that.

seriously... a whole damned book filled with surrealist parlor games and examples from a myriad of artists showing what said games produce... fan-fucking-tastic! if for some reason you need to acquire a copy of this book for yourself (and i promise you, you do), here you go... i just made it that much easier.
now, since, for this moment anyway, we're talking about books... and randomly so... i will direct your attention to a few other key areas...
first, your daily awesome (rip) brought some amazing images to my attention some time back.

they are brain maps from the book of life by dr. alesha sivartha... yda got them from here... and that guy got them from here... and now you got them from me... awesome, right? i'll be doing a more detailed post about the book of life sometime in the near future after i let it digest a bit more...
...so books with awesome imagery... my friend audrey just blogged about another blog which focuses on this very topic... scans of super amazing old book covers... like for reals... check it.

okay... so i'm gonna stop soon, i swear... but there are just two more things i need to spit out before this caffeine wears off. owl cave books put a link to this blog up on facebook today, and it is absolutely amazing...

awful library books... about as perfectly nerdy as you could get.
incidentally, owl cave is also the best place to pick up perfect and random books you didn't even know you were looking for.

p.s. librarians are hot.
p.p.s. girls on the cover of the fader? word.

daydream.

2009-08-12T15:27:00.000-07:00

hate your parents, love your friends...warm days that taste like nicotine, sweet-tarts and sex... smoking, drinking, fucking, fighting, dancing. innocence and debauch. no one understands you, every song is about you.
it's come time for some kind of teenage riot.
...and i thank girls for bringing us one.
this is the video for the song lust for life (mp3 link borrowed from cobain in a coma, an amazing blog if for some reason you don't already read it)... off the absurdly perfect 7" of the same name. limited and long since sold out, the fucking thing came with a corsage. perfect.
and so is this.

for those (likely most of you) who missed yer chance to grab said single... you get one more... girls full length album is (finally) to be released on september 22nd of this year on true panther sounds, and if you pre-order it through insound you get a free copy of lust for life with a new b-side: "life in san francisco". precious.